Five Pakistanis were in the original list, but none will feature after their country's Foreign Office refused to grant them permission to travel to India.
Senators writing a sweeping immigration bill have said they hope to finish their work this week, opening what's sure to be a raucous public debate over measures to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country and grant eventual citizenship to the millions living illegally in the United States.
Given the decades-long absence of a national clean energy strategy in the United States, the fact that foreign companies are benefiting most from the stimulus grant program should come as no surprise.
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Unfortunately, as things stand now, the only impediments to the early transfer of a true national asset to a potentially problematic foreign owner are two, all-too-often pro forma bureaucratic exercises: the grant of a Federal Communications Commission license to transfer ownership and a possible Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.
At the LSE the share of foreign students is over 50%, but Mr Grant has no plans to go that far.
Some Cuban economists expect that in the coming months the government will grant more scope for family businesses and foreign investment, and allow state companies more autonomy.
Government can also grant monopoly status, barriers to entry and protection from foreign competition.
Foreign ministers of the League's member states decided Monday to grant Syria's seat in the body to the opposition.
Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.
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In another one of those bad ideas that never seem to go away, Congress may be about to grant a huge tax break to multinational companies that have stashed earnings in their foreign subsidiaries.
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College, says that around 35% of its 25, 000 students are foreign, compared with around 23% ten years ago.
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